Food for Work program
As a food-for-work program ( food for work ) is a special form of food aid , respectively. The beneficiaries do not receive the relief goods - especially food - for free, but in exchange for work. The latter often serves to improve the infrastructure over the long term , such as building roads or irrigation systems.
Food-for-work programs are particularly intended to counter the criticism sometimes expressed that food aid only has short-term effects and also paralyzes the beneficiaries' initiative.
history
Centuries ago, in the “years of hunger”, job creation measures took place in which those affected by hunger were given work and were either paid with food or with money to buy them.
The reaction of the British government to the Great Famine in Ireland 1845–1849 and to subsequent famine in British India consisted in large part in the organization of such programs, although wages were often insufficient to actually meet the food needs of the workers. Also, because of their malnutrition , many were already too weak to do the required, often heavy, work.
Today the United Nations World Food Program runs food-for-work programs in various countries.
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- ↑ Mike Davis , The Birth of the Third World , ISBN 3-935936-43-5
- ↑ WFP: Food for Work ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (engl.)
